Accused rapist Nicholas Rossi is to be extradited home to the US from Scotland. Why is he a Stupid MFer? Because he felt that claiming to be someone else and that his very distinctive tattoos were put on him to frame him while he was in the hospital would be a good excuse or legal strategy. It’s a weird story in all.
Most tongues are basically pure muscle with hardly any fat. Can’t imagine it would have been very good. The fat is where a lot of the flavor comes from.
David Sedaris tells the story of living in France, slowly learning french and going into a local butcher’s store. There he pointed at the calves brains for sale and basically asked in his rudamentary french “is them the thoughts of cows?”
Many years ago I tried sliced calf’s brain sauteed in browned butter, and I thought it was pretty good. (I also like liver and onions, and found tripe cooked properly in an Italian restaurant okay, too, if that tells you something.)
Then along came Mad Cow Disease, and brains were no longer available.
When I was a kid, my father worked in the office (well, he was the office staff) for a small meat-packing plant. Smart father, we always had meat to eat. Anyway, once in a while he would bring home beef tongue. A whole tongue. It didn’t look very appetizing, but I have to tell you, thoroughly cooked, cooled and sliced thin, it made pretty good sandwiches.
Especially if marinated for a while first in vinegar and some spices. I use peppercorns, cloves, bayleaf, and some salt. Next time I’m going to try adding ginger. This is good for beef heart, too.
Many years ago, my father used to buy jars of pickled lambs’ tongue. I have no idea of the recipe and also no idea where to buy them now, if it’s even possible; but I certainly liked them then.
– no, Amazon, I don’t mean pickled pigs’ feet! And no, Google, I don’t mean pickled beef tongue. I put the phrase in quotes, damn it. (Google did turn up a few recipes that actually seem to be for lamb tongue.)
I’ve eaten tacos con lengua from a street taqueria in Guadalajara. No idea what animal provided the tongue, but it was sliced very thin, and was delicious. And I’m a real food weenie when it comes to organ meats.
On the other hand, I tried the same dish a few weeks later, in a Mexican restaurant in Chicago, and it was disgusting - rubbery, chewy, and altogether far too tongue-like to choke down; it felt like eating a French kiss. Yucko.
I’ve tried lengua in a Mission-style burrito. It was basically shredded like carnitas. I was largely indifferent to the flavor (it was okay, nothing special) but really rather disliked the texture, which was a bit “rough” or “furry.”
I thought folks had stopped eating animal brain owing to the JKV disease concern. Whatever happened to that? Oh, I’ve been vegetarian now for over 20 years, so news about that hasn’t really been on my radar, so I probably missed it.